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"Twitter users increasingly follow #hashtags as attentively as they do single-author Twitter feeds. As a subject crests in the popular imagination, certain hashtags become affixed to the story — or to a way of seeing the story. You tend to be loyal to your hashtags, at least for a few days, and track them wherever they go. Hashtags are maybe like those color-coded back-pocket bandannas that gay men began using in the ’70s to show that they were into this or that kind of sex. Only way dorkier and not sexy."